Column will begin in two weeks, to coencide with the NFL week one. Would start it earlier with just college, but I will be out of town much of the time leading up to week one. I'll posts some picks on here in the mean time.

An interesting week one note from a Lead Man source in Vegas, Vegas is sweating one early as it seems like a TON of sharp money (and just about all monies on this game were of the early, sharp variety) steamed the Northwestern line fom an opening of 2, all the way to 5.5. All the heavy hitters pounced on NW early and often, and the books couldn't bump the line fast enough to keep up with the action. Vandy's only returning offensive lineman was injured pre-season, but it seems the sharps saw much more than this.

That's one of the games this week ... I can't get my hands around it. UCLA is one of those teams, seems like every time I bet em they don't show up. They beat K St last year 23-9 in the opener (in LA) ... but K St out gained em. So a little revenge factor, UCLA traveling to Kansas ... I'm just up in the air on it.

"It's like dating a woman who hates you so much she will never break up with you, even if you burn down the house every single autumn." ~ Chuck Klosterman on Browns fans relationship with the Browns

That's one of the games this week ... I can't get my hands around it. UCLA is one of those teams, seems like every time I bet em they don't show up. They beat K St last year 23-9 in the opener (in LA) ... but K St out gained em. So a little revenge factor, UCLA traveling to Kansas ... I'm just up in the air on it

They've lost like 4 or 5 dudes within the last week due to academics and such and this spread is only +1.5 on the road? It opened at +2.5 at some places. Their D is supposed to be sick this year.

Anyone look at the Minn/MTSU matchup?

MTSU -1? Really? Isn't Dasher suspended?

A Big 10 team vs. a freaking Sun Belt conf team? I know it's Minn, but damn. Minn has to be much bigger and faster than a sun belt conf team, no?

That's one of the games this week ... I can't get my hands around it. UCLA is one of those teams, seems like every time I bet em they don't show up. They beat K St last year 23-9 in the opener (in LA) ... but K St out gained em. So a little revenge factor, UCLA traveling to Kansas ... I'm just up in the air on it.

Always beware of the squad that has o-line problems right out of the box.

I like them, the strengths are in the right place, Running game and Defense/ST's. They likely wont be rusty like Oregon was last season and the last time BSU came this far East they got torched by UGA.

This VT team probably isn't as good as that UGA team and this BSU team is a bit better than that version, but I see a tight to solid win from VT, 3-10 pts.

Erie Warrior wrote:Navy is killing me. Sloppiest game I've seen them play. Should be 24-14. How the hell don't they get points right before the half. Throw one into the EZ, then kick the field goal. WTF.

I'm glad that they lost. They deserved to. After that shitty first half. Sorry that they screwed you.

On the other hand, I am a bit disappointed that I didn't take u25.5 for the 2nd half to get myself even on the game, but whatever.

Who you have tonight EW?

A God Damn dead man would understand that if a minor league bus in any city took a real sharp right turn, a Zack McCalister would likely fall out. - Lead Pipe

Frank Beamer should get fired. 2 mins left. Boise no timeouts and he elects to pass the ball on 3rd down. Run the ball there and you take 1 min off the clock. That leaves Boise with roughly 1 min to score from their own territory.